Proxy Wars: The Korean And Vietnam War

The Cold War (1947 – 1991) was fought between the two powerful nations, United States and the Soviet Union. However, there was never any direct contact between the two nations. In these two wars, the United States fought for capitalism and the Soviet Union fought for communism. They are not participate in the war but incitement to war - the United States and the Soviet using the proxy war to fighting with each other. During the Cold War, the two examples of proxy wars are the Korean and Vietnam wars. The Korean War began in 1950, when North Korean surprise attack on South Korea. Although China supported North Korea who fought for communism, but the United States supports South Korea who is a non-communist country. Three years later, which was in 1953, a armistice was signed and it symbolize the ending of the Korean War. When President Johnson declared that the North Vietnamese attacked the Gulf of Tonkin, the United States was involved in the Vietnam War in 1964. He also believes that the Domino Theory - The theory is that if Vietnam fell to communism, and the rest …show more content…
In parallel to separate these two countries; Vietnam was separated at 17th parallel, and it similar to the 38th parallel of Korea. Because of this, the northern part of these countries are easily accessible by their communist ideology fought by the Soviet Union. However, the southern region of these countries are far away from Soviet influence and have also been affected by United States. For the United States involved in these two wars it is mainly due to curb demand for communism. While the United States did not want communism, Soviet wants more countries to be inspired by communism. Therefore, the US intervention in these two wars and attempt to fight against with Soviet Union and its communist